I was in SoL, when I noticed my friend could harvest items about a second faster than me. We spent about 5 minutes looking at buffs, and it seemed he had nothing to make it faster than me, except the harvesting cloak buff.

On the last 2 shinies in zone, we did a little test. I harvested it with the buff, and without the buff, and it seemed to shave a second off my time when I had the harvesting cloak buff on.

I want to run another test, because I was just counting myself and might have messed up.

What exactly does the cloak help out with? Of course it has the stats to the harvesting abilities, and the falling speed is reduced, but the spell on it, Determination of the Harvester... what exactly does that part of it do?

Determination of the Harvester does the three things listed below it: * Increase sizemod of caster by 20 (makes you bigger) * Shapechanges caster into a Rock (turns you into a rock) * This effect suspends during combat